Eric Begy 🇺🇲

The IRBM attack on Diego Garcia should be a wake-up call, and gives a lot more credence to the notion that the threat from Iran was truly "imminent." But the debate about imminence has been somewhat ridiculous from the get-go, and it's a product of a pretty obvious category error. In the civilian context, the law of self-defense requires that the person claiming the privilege be faced with the "imminent" use of force against them. There's an obvious reasons for this: if the use of force is not "imminent," that means you have time to call the cops. The law tries to minimize vigiliantism because the monopoly of force is supposed to be held by the state. But since the state can't be everywhere at all times, people are allowed to defend themselves and others from the imminent use of force. For example, say you discover evidence that your enemy has contracted out a murder-for-hire against you, to be completed at some point in the next week. Are you allowed to go to that person's house and kill him in cold blood? No. While the threat of deadly force was real, it wasn't imminent, and you could (and should) call the cops to have him arrested. Now, if the hitman shows up at your door, you can use deadly force, because of course that is an imminent threat. That logic doesn't work in the foreign affairs context. Once you find out that a foreign nation is trying to build a nuclear capability while calling for "death" to your country, there's no international law police you can call to arrest them. So the idea of waiting to defend yourself from an inevitable threat until that threat is *imminent* is ridiculous.

I’m a Black woman… I’ve been Black my whole entire life. And my whole entire life I have had a form of ID. The SAVE Act isn’t racist. It’s the only hope we have to get some fair elections. PASS THAT DAMN BILL! bit.ly/47IUR8b

@RepJoeMorelle We all know why you want it easy to cheat at voting. People would never elect someone like you

Donald Trump's interference in our election systems is about benefiting his party and himself.   We cannot allow him to make it harder for eligible Americans to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

@JamieBonkiewicz x.com/i/status/20349…

Reminder: if voting requires a $165 passport, that’s a poll tax. We made those unconstitutional in 1964.

Chuck Schumer and other Democrats have insisted that they actually support Voter ID—they just object to other parts of the SAVE America Act. Well, @SenJonHusted just asked unanimous consent to pass ONLY the Voter ID portion of the bill. Democrats blocked it.

@BernieSanders It's a shame that people actually listen to you. Before you start to rant you really should investigate. Please look what has happened to manufacturing over the last 40 years and you would see how ridiculous you are being.

Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.

@strax_potato @amuse Some do

@ericbegy @amuse Don't need religious doctrine to tell me not to kill. Do you?

TEXAS SENATE RACE: The gay preacher opposed posting the 10 Commandments because it would remind him of all the stuff he was doing wrong. 🤣

@strax_potato @amuse Why not? Are you offended by don't kill?

@ericbegy @amuse Because they don't belong in public spaces.

Gavin NewSCUM is spending over $1 BILLION taxpayer dollars to build a new State Capitol office building for himself & lawmakers. 2,000+ NDAs have been signed preventing ANY details from going public. They want to spend YOUR money in complete secrecy.

@CNviolations It's the texture

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@JebraFaushay Kinda puts a kink in the theory of evolution

Sometimes I feel as though we are not advancing as a species.

@HumanEvents If it was downed how could it land? For people who use words every day you don't seem to know what they mean

US F-35 downed by Iranian fire makes safe landing in Middle East humanevents.com/us-f-35-downed…

@ggreenwald I thought you were better than this. It's pretty sad to me

It's an honest assessment of US Foreign Policy and the worldview of Fox News (except that total honesty would require a reversal of the flags' order):

@GovPressOffice 5 years to build a wildlife bridge is the definition of boondoggle

MAGA's outrage over a project that literally SAVES LIVES tells you everything! This freeway project, grounded in decades of research, restores a critical wildlife corridor and reduces DEADLY collisions on one of the busiest highways in the country — protecting both drivers and animals. FACT: The cost estimate held until last year when inflation — in part driven by TRUMP’s TARIFFS — increased construction costs. The increase is vastly LOWER than the 67% national average increase in highway construction costs. FACT: The timeline shifted by just ONE YEAR largely due to severe weather last year — five years of work is far from a “boondoggle.”

@BonginoReport @grok did the people who came to America while it was a colony of the British have to have permission or paperwork to come here?

This actually happened… has a Democrat ever looked so STUPID?! 😂 rumble.com/v77at4y-jamie-…

They’re called “noncitizens”

After last weeks @CNN disasterous daily misinformation week, felt it was a good time to remind you of the hoaxes CNN has pushed. Thanks to @NolteNC for compiling this list.

@RNCResearch What kind of people are they hiring, he is not smart enough to write this himself

Democrat Peter Welch apparently thinks you don't need to be a resident of a state to vote in its elections. WELCH: “The bill not only requires proof of citizenship, but also proof of residence in order to register. This could block even more voters from voting.”